Clemens Pötzsch (also Clemens Christian Poetzsch; * 12 March 1985 in Dresden) is a German pianist and composer.
Pötzsch attended the St. Benno Grammar School, received musical training at the Heinrich Schütz Conservatory in Dresden until 2003 and studied piano at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music Dresden (HfM) with Michael Fuchs and Matthias Bätzel from 2004 until receiving his artistic diploma in 2010. This was followed by composition studies with Thomas Zoller.

Pötzsch was a member of the Bundesjugendjazzorchester, played at the lecturer's concert at the Jazztage Dresden 2012 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the jazz/rock/pop department at the HfM[1] and belonged to the ensemble of the Staatsschauspiel Dresden.[2] Furthermore, Pötzsch was a founding member of the German-Lebanese quartet Masaa, of which he was a member between 2012 and 2018, with performances in Lebanon and in 2013 in East Africa at the invitation of the Goethe-Institut, among others. In 2013, he composed the ballet music Što zwostanje - Abschied for the Sorbian National Ensemble.

In 2015, he arranged some songs by the band Rammstein for piano; on the concept album Rammstein - XXI Klavier, he is also the sole performer of the selected Rammstein tracks.[3][4] His album Remember Tomorrow, released in 2019 in the Neue Meister series on Edel, was nominated for the Opus Klassik in five categories. Furthermore, he can also be heard on albums by guitarist Paul Peuker and saxophonist Robert Menzel.

Pötzsch taught piano and accompaniment at the Lausitz University of Music.
Pötzsch has been awarded several scholarships and prizes, including a prize in the International Jazz Haus Piano Competition Freiburg (2008), a finalist in the Concours de piano-jazz Martial Solal (2009), a scholarship from the Cultural Foundation of the State of Saxony and won the soloist prize at the Krokus Jazz Festiwal[5] in Jelenia Góra (2012). With Masaa, he won the first Bremen Jazz Prize in 2012, endowed with 10,000 euros. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.